AustLit

Beckett & Hercus (2009) present several ‘versions’ of a mura track narrative as told by five different senior Aboriginal people from the ‘Corner Country’ area where New South Wales, South Australia and Queensland come together. Mura track narratives, as Beckett & Hercus (2009: 2) explain, detail: ‘the travelling of ancestral beings also called mura – occasionally human but more often anthropomorphic animal – who form the country and name it as they go’, a concept similar to the Central Australian concept of the Dreaming (tjukurrpa in the Western Desert language). They show that the storytellers present individualised but nonetheless connected versions of these narratives that together produce a broader understanding of the story and demonstrate clear interconnections between the different but associated groups of people and their country.'  (Introduction)